Napoleon was very generous, he sent a team of more than a hundred scientists, of course, there were very few real master scientists, but all of them were graduates of regular universities such as École Polytechnique de Paris, and there were people of considerable skill.

What really satisfies Zhou Lang is that the core personnel are really experts who can stand the test, such as the chief scientists of the team are Monge, Bertolet, Fourier, Arago, etc., these people are the top masters of this era.

The men also brought hundreds of boxes of books and research equipment.

Zhou Lang personally hosted a banquet for the team members, and after intimate exchanges with them, he felt as if China was underestimated by Napoleon.

Because these people are basically the same group of scientists that Napoleon had on his expedition to Egypt a few years ago, it is not surprising that these people have worked with Napoleon and have been to the East, Napoleon is familiar with them, recognizes them, and knows that these people really have a passion for research, plus they have studied Egypt and have experience in studying the East, so they are the most suitable team, at least the French think so.

The ability of this team, Zhou Lang is recognized.

Needless to say, he and Napoleon established the Academy of Sciences in Egypt, he served as the president, has the ability to manage the scientific research team, and has written a lot of personal works, such as "Cannon Manufacturing Process", "Analytical Formula of Curved Surfaces", "Introduction to Statics", "Drawing Geometry", "Application of Algebra in Geometry", "Application of Analysis in Geometry" and other academic works, all of which are of world-class level.

Moreover, his position in the academic world is also top-notch, he founded the geometry of drawing, promoted the independent development of spatial analytic geometry, laid a broad foundation for spatial differential geometry, founded the characteristic theory of partial differential equations, and led the revival of pure geometry in the 19th century.

This is a true master.

His deputy, Fourier, has a high position in the fields of heat conduction and mathematics, and the disciplines he pioneered are still taught in 21st-century universities.

Bertolé has made great achievements in the field of chemistry, and his main works include "Chemical Statics", "Chemical Nomenclature", "Study of the Law of Chemical Affinity", etc., and studied the affinity of compounds, and was the first to take mass as a factor in determining chemical affinity. Discover reversibility in chemical reactions. The composition of ammonia and hydrocyanic acid was determined. The bleaching effects of sucrase and chlorine were discovered. Prove the presence of nitrogen in animal bodies.

His own research direction is the study of dyes and bleach, and he found that chlorine has a bleaching effect, which has practical value and has contributed greatly to the development of chemical dyes.

The young Arago was a physicist and astronomer who excelled in optics and electromagnetism. In 1809 he became professor of geometry at the École des Arts et Métiers de Paris, a member of the French Academy of Sciences in the same year, and later director of the Paris Observatory, and in 1830 he became a lifelong secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.

The other members of the team, although they do not have strong academic ability, are also very professional.

When Napoleon went on an expedition to Egypt, the fleet was annihilated by Nelson, which led to the interruption of all logistical supplies, and it was with the help of these expert teams that a certain amount of supplies were miraculously obtained in Egypt. Almost from scratch, they expanded the area of grain cultivation in Egypt, built large ovens and bakeries, and built windmill mills. Others have opened vineyards and brewed beer. Foundries were built to produce tools and machines. They used their knowledge of chemistry to refine nitrate using bubble soda technology, and finally they were able to supply the French army with gunpowder in Egypt.

This team not only has a solid academic foundation, but also has a good level of application, so Zhou Lang has almost nothing to be faulted with.

It's just that Napoleon not only sent a scientific and technical team, but also a large number of other professional scholars, such as geologists and archaeological scholars, who measured the Nile Delta in Egypt and estimated the geological age of the local area; Archaeology has outrageously moved all the mummies in the pyramids back to France.

Obviously, Napoleon intended these people to study China systematically like Egypt, but can Egypt be compared with China, Egypt is a dead ancient civilization, Egypt has been broken to the point that only the ruins narrate the glory, the Egyptians can't even speak the ancient Egyptian language, and the cuneiform script used in ancient times is like a book from heaven, which has been assimilated by Arabe; China is an ancient civilization that has been continued, and the words left by the ancient Chinese can still be understood by Chinese people at least the written records after the first Qin Emperor's book, and the thoughts of the ancients are still understood by contemporary people.

Egypt is a country ruled by foreign races, with the Arabs, Ottomans, and Mamluks as rulers successively, and the local people have no sense of existence at all, and it is a complete agricultural and pastoral society; China, however, was the largest producer of handicrafts in this era, with a stronger production capacity than Britain, which had not completed the Industrial Revolution.

The two are not comparable at all, so Zhou Lang felt that Napoleon underestimated China.

But Zhou Lang still supports this team very much, and tries his best to meet their research conditions, of course, some places can't be supported, for example, they want to excavate a large number of ancient tombs, which must not be supported, but some ancient tombs that have been destroyed by tomb robbers can be rescued and excavated.

Of course, the purpose of Zhou Lang inviting them to come is by no means to let them bury their heads in the pile of old papers to do learning, but to give them tasks and let them help them do things, so Zhou Lang did not hesitate to pay them high salaries, Mengri and a group of top scholars, give them an annual salary of 100,000 taels per year, and the annual salary of others is generally tens of thousands, and the salary of about 2 million taels is issued for this team every year, and there is no such generous employer in the world.

The task given to them is not to embarrass them, but to let them develop their strengths, and ask them to carry out standardization work when studying Chinese traditional knowledge and technology.

For example, Zhou Lang is most concerned about some of the technical aspects that China is still leading, in terms of water conservancy, he has let them study a large number of books on river management accumulated in the archives of Caoyun and River Yamen, and summarized the mantras taught by Chinese craftsmen into modern engineering theories.

The traditional Chinese engineering construction standards such as "Construction Method" and "Engineering Practice of the Qing Ministry of Engineering" are more accurately expressed in accordance with the concept of digital management.

Those who study the Chinese handicraft industry are required to formulate standardized standards in the process of research, which can be more easily promoted.

In short, to promote standardized standards in all walks of life, this is what Zhou Lang hopes they will do the most.

Compared with the United Kingdom, France is not a country with a particularly strong commercial culture, probably related to the centralized system in history, and the centralized government often prefers to do things through administrative methods, so the French have many experiences in managing production through administrative means in history.

For example, in the era of Louis XIV, the mercantilist Colbert was appointed to develop the French economy, and this person quickly led the French handicraft production capacity ahead of Europe by opening a large number of government-run handicraft workshops; In a systematic way, a system of canals and roads was established.

By the time of Napoleon, the French carried out systematic and standardized management practices in the field of production and technology, and in the field of finance, established the Bank of France to standardize the financial order; In the industrial field, a national industrial incentive association has been established to give various support to domestic industrial and commercial enterprises, such as appropriation subsidies, subsidies, state orders, incentives for the use of machines, competitions, the implementation of the patent system, and the holding of expositions. Manufacturers, the establishment of a workshop and factory management committee, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, to regulate the management of workshops and factories.

Zhou Lang has done these management standardizations, and Zhou Lang does not need to introduce Western systems for management problems, at most refer to the experience of the French, but on the whole, the management of the French may not be as good as those systems launched by Zhou Lang. But in the field of technical expertise, Zhou Lang relied heavily on Western knowledge to supplement it. Because he is not a technical professional, he lacks professional technical knowledge and experience.

Therefore, Zhou Langcai invited this scientific team, and they needed to scientifically and standardize China's existing traditional technologies, and compile special specifications for promotion. It is necessary for them to modernize and summarize ancient Chinese engineering, and even introduce modern methods to study those traditional experiences, and finally to formulate standard research methods for promotion.

It is believed that after their transformation, China's handicraft industry will be more standardized in technology, greatly improved in efficiency, and more consistent in quality.

But the most important thing is that their research methods, the processes and methods of compiling standards, will form a system, and the department in charge is the Ministry of Industry that Zhou Lang chose to reform.

Yes, in Zhou Lang's reform design, the Ministry of Industry will become a department that standardizes the management of industrial production and promotes technology throughout the country, not a cold yamen in the past, nor an inefficient organization under the leadership of civil officials, but a technical management department composed of technical professionals. The way to intervene in the field of production is to regulate the field of production through the development and dissemination of standards.

It is not only necessary to promote standardized technology in the existing handicraft workshops and workshops, but also to keep up with the trend of the times and always be able to promote the most advanced systems and management in the rapid technological innovation of the industrial era.

This is Zhou Lang's positioning of the Ministry of Industry.

It all starts with this French team, it's a seed.

Therefore, after communicating with several team managers such as Monge, the work content was quickly clarified, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences was established with the French scientific team as the team. In the future, this academy will be directly under the management of the Ministry of Industry, but now the Ministry of Industry will have to incubate from them.

The college was soon divided into four departments: the Chinese Department of Engineering, the Chinese Department of Hydraulics, the Chinese Department of Archaeology, and the Chinese Department of Industry, which respectively studied and standardized ancient Chinese and traditional engineering technology, hydraulic technology and handicraft technology.

But these people were far from enough, and Zhou Lang used state-level forces to recruit a large number of young officials from government departments who had studied mathematics in schools run by the Dutch, and intercepted all students from the schools to join the team.

The current level of these students, of course, can not meet the requirements of the Academy of Sciences, all Zhou Lang also let them open a school, what these students lack, make up for it, Zhou Lang attaches great importance to this, and even does not hesitate to make a wish to these students, telling them that learning will change their fate, as long as they can complete their studies and be recognized by the French, they can obtain at least five official positions.

This is a huge stimulus for students, and Chinese are never bad at learning. The key depends on how to guide, let them take the imperial examination, they can be ten years cold, because the imperial examination is a shortcut to the end of the south to become an official, and now tell them that learning the knowledge of these foreigners is a shortcut than taking the imperial examination, which will stimulate the energy in the depths of their blood.

They will follow, learn and help the French to study the field of traditional Chinese technology, through this process, learn how to refine the standards in technology, and when they have completed these systematic work, they will also master how to manage a huge production system, and then a modern Ministry of Industry will be built logically.

As for the Academy of Sciences itself, it will always exist, and perhaps some of these people are highly talented, and soon reach a level where they can study and discover new knowledge, and they will slowly succeed these French people in continuing their research and becoming scientists in China.

Zhou Lang regarded it as a big project, a big sociological project, a big sociological project at the national level, and he did not hesitate to promote it with the strength of the whole country.

The French wanted to visit the Dujiangyan project and study the scientific principles existing in the ancient Chinese wisdom of water conservancy, and Zhou Lang supported them to take the Chinese students with them; They were to study the structure and defensive function of the Great Wall and let the students take them there; They were to study the palace architecture of China, and to enclose the Forbidden City for them to study; They were to study China's textile industry and get the magistrates in the Songjiang area to cooperate with them; They want to study China's silk weaving technology, and Jiangning weaving can give them research.

As for saying that these technologies will be stolen by the French, learn to go, learn to go, knowledge belongs to the world, belongs to all mankind, and it can be regarded as the contribution of Chinese to the world. It is better to let these traditional technologies go modern than to let them slowly fall behind the times and then die.

Besides, the French also have to learn, technical things, not theory, know how to weave a cloud brocade fabric, does not mean that you can weave out, the technology mastered by craftsmen is also a craft, the French can learn the principle, but can not learn the feel of the craftsman.

Therefore, even if the French learned these production techniques, the same machines, the products they produced could not catch up with the Jiangnan craftsmen for a long time.

Of course, in the end, the French may really take away these traditional skills, but Zhou Lang feels that he will gain a modern system, which is completely worth it!

What's more, many things Zhou Lang is sure that the French can't learn, because many Chinese products are unique to China, and they are the blessings of mountains and rivers, not manpower, not to mention tea, and some handicraft products, such as Jili Lake silk and Nanjing cloth.